Young community services student and women’s shelter volunteer worker, Elkyrra Glass spent the first five years of her life on The Block till her family was evicted by the Aboriginal Housing Company in 1996. Ms Glass sees the more than two-month strong stance by the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy as the first real chance for […]
July 2014 – Page 2
I have written widely on the suicides crises and on the need to disaggregate the data region by region and where necessary community by community and furthermore by age categories. I have also translated much of my research into journalism so the extensiveness of the crises can garner the necessary responses. However, now we need […]
It is nothing new for Australia to be locking up children in police cells or adult prisons. Once again, recently, an 11 year-old-girl spent a weekend at Karratha’s police station. This follows a 12 year-old child in a Kimberley police lockup. Last year, for more than 6 months 120 juveniles, First Nations youth, finished up […]
WA girls are being sexually harassed and blackmailed as part of a disturbing sex culture among teens, a leading children’s advocate has warned. In a series of workshops held in Perth schools last month, author Melinda Tankard Reist was inundated with teenage girls detailing their struggles with harassment, objectification and peer pressure – fuelled by […]
According to a report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) there were 42 substantiated cases of ‘abuse’, which includes ‘neglect’, for every 1000 Aboriginal children as opposed to 5 cases per 1000 for the rest of Australia. But how true are these statistics? What is neglect? What are the definitions of abuse? […]
Lynette Blayney is emotive and articulate about her surprisingly brief stint in child welfare in the Northern Territory as she describes settings of unchallenged rife sexual abuse throughout regions of the Territory which fall into line with some of what the controversial Little Children are Sacred Report alleged and what many researchers and academics have alleged is […]
“It is a sacred duty for me as a (Holocaust) survivor, to protest against the persecution, the oppression and the imprisonment of so many people in Gaza, including more than 800,000 children,” said Dr Reuvin Moskovitz. “I, as a Holocaust survivor, cannot live with the fact that the State of Israel is imprisoning an entire […]
Murrawari man, William Trapman has been confronting and unveiling racism from his days as a young child in Brewarinna to his workplace experiences since. The worst mistake one can make according to Mr Trapman is to let the racism slide – best to beat it down, and this can only happen by confronting it. “Growing […]
America’s Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has nominated Ms Debra Hocking from the University of Wollongong to be the Australian coordinator for a new Harvard Global Indigenous Trauma Recovery programme to deliver an Indigenous Trauma Recovery Programme. Massachusetts General Hospital is the third oldest general hospital in the United States and one of the major teaching […]
The Western world is in mourning over the sons, daughters, couples, parents and grandparents who never made it home after the tragic Malaysia Airlines disaster. Days on from the horrific crash the official Australian death toll from flight MH17 has been updated to 37 and the total deaths remains at 298. World headlines have included […]
General News
- March 9, 2021
Australia’s governments must end health discrimination in its prisons. An incarcerated child must not be a second-class citizen. Nor any adult. We must ask, why are our governments dishing the vulnerable jailed, second-class healthcare? When evaluating the nation’s carceral system, we are […]
- February 2, 2021
When will the cries of the homeless be heard? Is there some sort of grotesque caste system in Western Australia? The anti-humanism is a brutal public spectacle. On the last day of January, the Western Australian Government actuated five days […]
- December 3, 2020
West Australia is the nation’s backwater. It is the mother of injustices, inequalities and the draconian. West Australia and the Northern Territory leave the have-nots that far behind, for many their lot appears irreparable. If there is a Mason-Dixon line […]
- September 22, 2020
There are many faces to homelessness. A 51-year-old woman walked into my Perth office. She has lived thirteen consecutive years street-homeless. Not long ago, she spent eighteen months sleeping her nights in the same park. She is weary, harrowed by […]
- September 3, 2020
Often beleaguered by international aid work I have lifelong been involved in; the increasing unmet needs, the mongrel injustices, I have argued the horrendous lie of our generation is that poverty is being reduced around the world. There are countries […]
- March 10, 2020
Gerry Georgatos – In 2014, I disaggregated to the Kimberley’s First Nations peoples, the nation’s highest suicide rate, one of the world’s highest, at over 70 suicides per 100,000 population (First Nations), thereabouts seven times the national rate. Fortunately, although […]
- February 18, 2020
Gerry Georgatos – More than 51 months ago I wrote an article on the imperatives of forgiveness and redemption. This remains true. We journey together in one form or another, we can either salt the earth or jag the road, […]
- January 29, 2020
By Gerry Georgatos – Trae lost his eleven-year-old brother to suicide. Nine months later he lost his mother to suicide. Trae was the last to see his brother. Half an hour later he went looking for his little brother. In the […]
- January 21, 2020
Gerry Georgatos – Children as young as 9 years have been lost to suicide, three in fact in recent years. Australians should ask, why? Proportionally, more children aged 14 years and less have been lost so far this century compared […]
- December 10, 2019
Gerry Georgatos – A mother suicides, a father suicides, their child was a suicide. Not once has this occurred but untold times. Over the years I have warned of mothers and fathers that would be near certain lost to suicide […]
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